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TEMPORARY BINDER FOR PAMPHLBTS, &o. No. 269,639. Patented Dec. 26, 1882..

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CHARLES S. GOOKE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y'.

TEMPORARY BINDER FOR PAMPHLETS, 84c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,639, dated December 26, 1882,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. UOOKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, ill the county of New York and State of-New York, have invented a new and useful improvement 'in Temporary Binders for Pamphlets, $50., of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to fasten painphlets and folded papers in a temporary binder by means of a continuous cord adapted to be fastened to the back of a binder by a separate hitch for each pamphlet or paper inserted in the binder.

The invention consists in providing the back of a temporary binder with hooks placed in line with each other at or near the top and bottom of the back, and arranged so that every pamphlet or paper placed in the binder is fastened by passing or hitching the continuous cord carried through the pamphlet or paper around a separate hook at the top and bottom.

The invention further consists in a device for preventing the pamphlet or paper from sagging when too long to be held by the cord alone.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my improved temporary binder open; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the same, taken on line or x, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section taken on line y y, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, A A represent the covers of the binder, attached by flexible connections a a to the back B.

U is a plate of. wood, metal, or other suitable material applied to the back B lengthwise thereof and between the flexible connections a a of the covers. The ends of the said plate are provided with projections b,formin g hooks, which are formed either by notching or slotting the ends of the plate, and thereby leave the projections, as shown; or they may be made separately and attached to the plate, or to the back 13 if the plate should not be used. The projections or hooks shown in the drawings have their under sides inclined upward and inward, which is for the purpose of pre venting the cord from slipping off, and there is sufficient space left between the projections and back to admit the cord readily under the projections.

Application filed April 20, 18532. (No model.)

D represents the cord. One end, 61, is attached to the plate 0; but the other end has no permanent attachment. The end cl may be fastened by placing it between the plate and back, carrying it upthrough a hole in the plate and knotting the end in a countersunk hole. (Indicated by the dotted lines in Fig.

- 1.) The end may, however, be fastened in any other convenient way. The cord is carried out from its attachment to the adjacent end of the back and through one of the slots or openings 6 between the projections 11. Pamphlets 'and other folded papers are fastened in the binder in the tollowing manner: Commencing at one side of the back or plate, the first paw-- phlet to be inserted is opened at about the center and laid on the binder, with its middle line, crease, or fold in line with the first slots 6 e, opposite or in line with each other at the top and bottom of the plate. The free portion of the cord D is now carriedfrom its attachment in the first slot 0 at the top, down the fold or crease in the pamphlet to the slot e at v the bottom, through the said slot under the adjoining projection or hook I), and up through the next slot 0, and is drawn tightly, whereby the pamphlet is firmly fastened to the plate. The next pamphlet to be inserted is placed alongside of the first, opened, as before, and the cord is carried upward to the top of the plate through the next slot 6 and under the adjoining projection and up through the slot, as be fore. Thus the cord is carried down and up alternately throughthe pamphlets as they are successively inserted, and for each is passed under one of the projections or hooks I) both at the top and bottom, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The cord is'sufficiently long to be passed through and fasten every pamphlet that may be placed in the binder, and also to be attached to a device, E, to which its free end may be temporarily attached to prevent the cord from slipping. This device consists of a bar, f, fixed to one of the covers A, and provided at the ends with spring-plates g g, bent down so as to bear against the cover A, but sufficiently flexible to permitthe cord to be passed under them. After inserting one or more pamphlets the cord is drawn tightly and its free end, being carried over to the device E, is wrapped around the same and under the sists of a bar, F, preferably made of wire,

of the pamphlet,and the latter is prevented spring-plates, whereby it is held taut and prevented from allowing the weight of the pamphlets to cause the cord to become slackened between its fastenings on the plate or back.

\Vhen long and heavy pamphlets and other papers are to be placed in thetemporary binder, a device may be employed to prevent them from sagging and from slipping endwise. This device is shown in the drawings; and it conplaced transversely of the plate and back and attached to the plate by bending its ends and passing them into or through the plate, as shown in Fig. 2. One or more of these bars may be attached to the plate, the number depending on the length of the binder and the weight and length of the papers to be placed in it.

To connect the pamphlets with this device, one or more saw cuts or slits, h, (depending on the number of bars attached to the plate,) are made in the folded edge of the pamphlet. \Vhen the pamphlet is opened and laid on the plate the bar is inserted in the slit It, so as to project up through the same. In carrying the cord over the opened pamphlet it is passed under the bar or bars I and thus fastens the pamphlet to the bar or bars at one or more points, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. By this device the cord is relieved of part of the weight from sagging, and also from slipping endwise, when the binder is raised or carried about.

To facilitate the passing of the cord under l the bar F it may be provided with a bent needle or a hook.

Instead of the hooks or projections b for wrapping or winding the cold around at each turn, holes may be made in the ends of the plate, or rings may be attached to the back at the top and bottom, if preferred, and the con tinuous cord passed through said holes or rings.

In place of the device E, for securing the end of the cord any other suitable arrangement may be adopted for that purpose.

I claim- 1. In a temporaiy hinder, the books I) b.

placed at the top and bottom of the back of the binder, in combination with the continuous cord D, so arranged that each pam phletis fastened by passing or hitching the cord around a separate hook at the top and bottom, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the covers A A and back B, the plate 0, provided with a series of hooks, b b, and continuous cord D, the said cord arranged to be hitched to separate hooks at top and bottom for every pamphlet inserted in the binder, substantially as described.

3. In cotnbiuation with the plate 0, provided with hooks b b and continuous cord 1), the bar F, substantially as described.

CHARLES S. COOKE.

Witnesses:

0. S. X. PEcK, MILLARD It. JONES. 

